the art shelf

Clifford Ellis ‘Variations on Six’  (Red on Black) 1960,  ‘Variations on Six’  (Red & Grey on Black)  1960 & ‘Variations on Six’ (Blue) 1960.

Dorothea Tanning, De quel amour (By What Love), 1969, Tweed, metal, wool, chain, and plush, 68 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Ariane, ma soeur, de quel amour blessée 

Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée!

Ariadne, my sister, wounded by what love,

You died on the shore where you were abandoned.

Greta Knutson-Tzara (Nov. 10, 1899 - 1983) was a Swedish artist, translator and art critic, who was married to Dada-founder Tristan Tzara. They lived together in Paris, where Greta Knutson had been studying with André Lhote.

Knutson worked in the Dada idiom, before transitioning to Surrealism, which she then distanced herself from as she become more literary oriented and started translating from French, Spanish and German, and writing art criticism.

Her work is represented at most major Swedish museums, and she is also at MoMA as part of an Exquisite Corpse collaborative work with Tzara, André Breton and Valentin Hugo.

Judie Chicago (US 1939)

We Are Pro-Choice, Nancy Spero, 1992